Next week the Justice Department is headed to federal court to stop a merger of competing nuclear waste disposal companies, the first test of the antitrust division’s trial team under the Trump administration (United States of America v. Energy Solutions ), reports Bloomberg.
In November the DoJ sued to block the proposed $367 million merger of EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists. They argues that combining the only two licensed commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities for most of the country would lead to higher prices and lower quality service.
“The division has a lot of litigation experience at the staff level that will remain involved in this and there’s no reason to think they’ve lost their capability just by the virtue of the change in administration,” David Kully, a partner at Holland & Knight and former head of an antitrust litigation section, told Bloomberg BNA.
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